Microservices Jobs

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 56 31
Rank change year-on-year -29 -25 -3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,600 4,234 15,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.88% 5.25% 8.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% 5.50% 9.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,840 2,839 5,634
10th Percentile £43,750 £49,700 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,554 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.97% +0.74% +7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £108,750 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.72% +7.20% +10.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microservices.

Salary trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -36 2,095 £65,000 -16.13% 322
UK excluding London -15 1,719 £62,500 -6.72% 270
Work from Home -35 1,078 £62,750 -16.33% 259
London -40 803 £85,000 - 112
North of England -13 428 £61,206 -9.32% 64
South East -19 407 £60,250 -13.93% 82
Scotland -11 390 £65,000 -2.26% 21
North West -36 208 £62,500 -3.85% 31
South West -21 193 £62,500 -7.41% 22
Yorkshire +15 172 £61,206 -9.32% 22
Midlands -55 172 £65,000 +4.00% 37
West Midlands -24 110 £65,000 +8.33% 23
East of England -46 76 £65,000 -3.70% 23
East Midlands -60 62 £55,000 -21.43% 14
North East 0 48 £64,000 -8.57% 13
Wales -9 27 £55,000 -8.33% 5
Northern Ireland +3 24 £65,000 +30.00% 28
Isle of Man - 4 £82,500 -

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 128 (4.92%) Apache Spark
2 98 (3.77%) FileNet
3 68 (2.62%) Apache
4 46 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
5 42 (1.62%) Confluence
6 21 (0.81%) GemFire
6 21 (0.81%) nginx
7 12 (0.46%) OpenStack
7 12 (0.46%) Tomcat
8 9 (0.35%) IIS
9 8 (0.31%) JBoss
10 7 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
11 6 (0.23%) CMS
11 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
12 5 (0.19%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.077%) EPiServer
Applications
1 32 (1.23%) Simulink
2 19 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.12%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.038%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.038%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.038%) Sketch
7 1 (0.038%) UXPin
7 1 (0.038%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 19 (0.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.077%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.077%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.038%) Magento
3 1 (0.038%) Maximo
3 1 (0.038%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.038%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.038%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,210 (46.54%) AWS
2 1,177 (45.27%) Azure
3 317 (12.19%) Serverless
4 243 (9.35%) GCP
5 205 (7.88%) SaaS
6 193 (7.42%) Azure DevOps
7 178 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
8 169 (6.50%) Amazon S3
9 162 (6.23%) GitHub
10 114 (4.38%) Amazon EKS
11 81 (3.12%) AWS CloudFormation
12 78 (3.00%) PaaS
13 71 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
14 61 (2.35%) Amazon SQS
14 61 (2.35%) Azure Functions
15 59 (2.27%) IaaS
16 56 (2.15%) OpenShift
17 54 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
18 53 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 50 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.54%) Firewall
2 36 (1.38%) AMQP
2 36 (1.38%) DNS
2 36 (1.38%) HTTP
3 29 (1.12%) Internet
4 25 (0.96%) MQTT
5 18 (0.69%) TCP/IP
6 14 (0.54%) Network Security
7 9 (0.35%) VPN
8 8 (0.31%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.31%) WAN
9 5 (0.19%) DHCP
10 3 (0.12%) GPRS
10 3 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
10 3 (0.12%) SMS
10 3 (0.12%) Wireless
11 2 (0.077%) DSL
12 1 (0.038%) 3GPP
12 1 (0.038%) Broadband
12 1 (0.038%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 462 (17.77%) NoSQL
2 420 (16.15%) SQL Server
3 236 (9.08%) MongoDB
4 227 (8.73%) PostgreSQL
5 222 (8.54%) Elasticsearch
6 140 (5.38%) MySQL
7 135 (5.19%) Relational Database
8 133 (5.12%) Apache Cassandra
9 103 (3.96%) Big Data
10 92 (3.54%) DynamoDB
11 89 (3.42%) Redis
12 73 (2.81%) Hadoop
13 46 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
14 43 (1.65%) Apache Hive
15 39 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
16 38 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
17 31 (1.19%) HBase
18 29 (1.12%) Cloudera CDH
19 26 (1.00%) CockroachDB
20 23 (0.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 369 (14.19%) Git
2 232 (8.92%) Jenkins
3 144 (5.54%) JUnit
4 85 (3.27%) JIRA
5 62 (2.38%) Jasmine
6 61 (2.35%) GitLab
7 59 (2.27%) Mockito
8 51 (1.96%) Visual Studio
9 49 (1.88%) Cucumber
9 49 (1.88%) Maven
10 47 (1.81%) Selenium
11 42 (1.62%) JMeter
12 34 (1.31%) Cypress.io
13 33 (1.27%) Vagrant
14 32 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
15 31 (1.19%) TeamCity
16 30 (1.15%) Bitbucket Server
16 30 (1.15%) NUnit
17 29 (1.12%) CircleCI
17 29 (1.12%) SonarQube
General
1 706 (27.15%) Finance
2 460 (17.69%) Social Skills
3 408 (15.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 379 (14.58%) Law
5 191 (7.35%) Marketing
6 190 (7.31%) Banking
7 164 (6.31%) Public Sector
8 160 (6.15%) Legal
9 130 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
10 87 (3.35%) Retail
11 74 (2.85%) Financial Institution
12 60 (2.31%) Investment Banking
13 47 (1.81%) Aerospace
14 45 (1.73%) Games
15 41 (1.58%) Tech for Good
16 38 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
17 37 (1.42%) Retail Banking
18 32 (1.23%) Electronics
19 31 (1.19%) Front Office
20 29 (1.12%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,075 (41.35%) Developer
2 683 (26.27%) Software Engineer
3 546 (21.00%) Senior
4 470 (18.08%) .NET Developer
5 381 (14.65%) Lead
6 352 (13.54%) Architect
7 258 (9.92%) Java Engineer
8 222 (8.54%) Java Software Engineer
9 220 (8.46%) Senior Developer
10 215 (8.27%) C# Developer
11 189 (7.27%) Solutions Architect
12 182 (7.00%) Java Developer
13 170 (6.54%) Senior Software Engineer
14 157 (6.04%) C# .NET Developer
15 141 (5.42%) Software Developer
16 139 (5.35%) Full Stack Engineer
17 128 (4.92%) Lead Software Engineer
18 108 (4.15%) Full Stack Software Engineer
19 86 (3.31%) Full Stack Developer
20 78 (3.00%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 844 (32.46%) .NET
2 669 (25.73%) AngularJS
3 658 (25.31%) React
4 489 (18.81%) Spring
5 462 (17.77%) Kafka
6 399 (15.35%) Spring Boot
7 397 (15.27%) ASP.NET Web API
8 380 (14.62%) Node.js
9 369 (14.19%) RESTful
10 341 (13.12%) ASP.NET
11 340 (13.08%) .NET Core
12 336 (12.92%) .NET Framework
13 309 (11.88%) REST
14 279 (10.73%) Entity Framework
15 270 (10.38%) HTML
16 252 (9.69%) Vue
17 214 (8.23%) CSS
18 195 (7.50%) GraphQL
19 178 (6.85%) Web Services
20 161 (6.19%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 385 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 164 (6.31%) Distributed Systems
3 146 (5.62%) Public Cloud
4 104 (4.00%) Algorithms
5 94 (3.62%) Greenfield Project
6 85 (3.27%) Product Ownership
7 59 (2.27%) IoT
7 59 (2.27%) Mobile App
8 58 (2.23%) Blog
9 56 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
10 52 (2.00%) Management Information System
10 52 (2.00%) Social Media
11 43 (1.65%) Data Structures
12 37 (1.42%) Distributed Applications
12 37 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
13 33 (1.27%) Social Network
14 31 (1.19%) Hedge funds
14 31 (1.19%) Virtual Team
15 28 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
16 27 (1.04%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 189 (7.27%) Linux
2 69 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 64 (2.46%) Ubuntu
4 63 (2.42%) Android
5 62 (2.38%) CentOS
6 57 (2.19%) Windows
7 47 (1.81%) Unix
8 29 (1.12%) Debian
9 17 (0.65%) Apple iOS
10 16 (0.62%) Windows Server
11 3 (0.12%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.12%) VMS
12 2 (0.077%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.038%) Solaris
13 1 (0.038%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,400 (53.85%) Agile
2 965 (37.12%) Software Engineering
3 823 (31.65%) CI/CD
4 756 (29.08%) Full Stack Development
5 640 (24.62%) DevOps
6 509 (19.58%) TDD
7 500 (19.23%) SDLC
8 349 (13.42%) Scrum
9 325 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
10 324 (12.46%) Computer Science
11 314 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
12 309 (11.88%) Mentoring
13 308 (11.85%) Test Automation
14 299 (11.50%) Containerisation
15 296 (11.38%) Machine Learning
16 258 (9.92%) Design Patterns
17 236 (9.08%) MVC
18 231 (8.88%) BDD
19 226 (8.69%) Kanban
20 224 (8.62%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 1,067 (41.04%) Java
2 816 (31.38%) C#
3 689 (26.50%) JavaScript
4 596 (22.92%) SQL
5 478 (18.38%) Python
6 444 (17.08%) TypeScript
7 118 (4.54%) Go
8 117 (4.50%) Kotlin
9 81 (3.12%) Scala
10 65 (2.50%) C++
11 53 (2.04%) PHP
12 46 (1.77%) PowerShell
13 40 (1.54%) PL/SQL
14 28 (1.08%) Bash
15 23 (0.88%) C
15 23 (0.88%) Groovy
16 19 (0.73%) Bicep
16 19 (0.73%) Ruby
17 16 (0.62%) Shell Script
18 10 (0.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 302 (11.62%) Degree
2 180 (6.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 172 (6.62%) Security Cleared
4 149 (5.73%) SC Cleared
5 80 (3.08%) Master's Degree
6 48 (1.85%) AWS Certification
7 38 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 37 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
9 36 (1.38%) Azure Certification
10 35 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 15 (0.58%) PhD
13 14 (0.54%) PMI Certification
14 12 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
16 8 (0.31%) CISSP
16 8 (0.31%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.27%) CIPD
18 5 (0.19%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (4.85%) QA
2 37 (1.42%) GDPR
3 30 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 17 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (0.62%) Data Quality
6 15 (0.58%) HIPAA
7 14 (0.54%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (0.46%) MiFID
10 11 (0.42%) SLA
11 7 (0.27%) GRC
11 7 (0.27%) WCAG
12 6 (0.23%) NIST
13 4 (0.15%) EMIR
13 4 (0.15%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.077%) IFRS
14 2 (0.077%) PMO
15 1 (0.038%) COBIT
15 1 (0.038%) SNOMED CT
15 1 (0.038%) Solvency II
System Software
1 532 (20.46%) Docker
2 47 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
3 33 (1.27%) HDFS
4 29 (1.12%) Active Directory
5 17 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
6 11 (0.42%) Firmware
7 10 (0.38%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.077%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 721 (27.73%) Kubernetes
2 305 (11.73%) Terraform
3 131 (5.04%) Ansible
4 92 (3.54%) Grafana
5 63 (2.42%) Puppet
6 57 (2.19%) Prometheus
7 45 (1.73%) Kibana
8 28 (1.08%) Progress Chef
9 21 (0.81%) HAProxy
9 21 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
9 21 (0.81%) Zipkin
10 8 (0.31%) Istio
10 8 (0.31%) MIIS
11 7 (0.27%) Argo
12 6 (0.23%) Consul
12 6 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.19%) Kiali
13 5 (0.19%) SCOM
14 3 (0.12%) Galera Cluster
14 3 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 381 (14.65%) Microsoft
2 191 (7.35%) Oracle
3 164 (6.31%) Google
4 61 (2.35%) Splunk
5 60 (2.31%) Databricks
6 49 (1.88%) Dynatrace
7 41 (1.58%) Red Hat
8 32 (1.23%) Xilinx
9 31 (1.19%) Informatica
10 30 (1.15%) Cloudera
10 30 (1.15%) Salesforce
11 29 (1.12%) SaltStack
12 21 (0.81%) Sparx
13 20 (0.77%) ForgeRock
14 18 (0.69%) Sitecore
15 17 (0.65%) Facebook
15 17 (0.65%) MuleSoft
15 17 (0.65%) ServiceNow
16 16 (0.62%) IBM
17 12 (0.46%) Atlassian